Progressive nonfluent aphasia: Language, cognitive, and PET measures contrasted with probable Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-154

  Grossman, Murray ^a,b   Mickanin, Jenifer ^a   Onishi, Kris ^a   Hughes, Elizabeth ^a   D'Esposito, Mark ^a   Ding, Xin Sheng ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a   Reivich, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; VISION; WRITING;

EID: 0029879720     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.2.135     Document Type: Article

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